Today is Poppy Day and Kirsty Gray and son Dane were among those to make a donation to to collector Maia Ferguson. Maia was part of a group of Campion College volunteers collecting money that will go towards supporting Returned and Services...
‘Trade-off’ from increasing number of Water Service Entities Gisborne District Council will no longer receive $21.62 million in Better Off funding as part of the Government’s relaunching of their water policy now known as Affordable Water...
Gisborne harbourmaster Peter Buell has urged everyone going out on a boat or jet ski to keep an eye out for large logs in the sea offshore of Gisborne and up the Coast. Logs and debris swept out to sea by Cyclone Gabrielle continue to float about in...
Cyclones Gabrielle and Hale and other recent rain events have destroyed an estimated 1200 beehives across Tairāwhiti and killed as many as 60 million bees in what a leading Gisborne apiarist describes as “considerable and widespread” impact...
With Anzac Day falling on Tuesday this year, police are expecting many people will have an extended long weekend. They are urging those travelling to wear seatbelts, to avoid driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, remove distractions, and...
A group of 16 young surf lifeguards from across the Eastern Region took part in an intermediate lifeguard development event in Gisborne over the weekend. The school provides junior lifeguards with skills, knowledge and connections to develop as...
A man accused of possessing drugs for supply at last December’s Rhythm and Vines concert — including the Class A substance LSD — is applying to be discharged without conviction. Rory Arthur Laurence Saunders, 20, was arrested just before...
Clearing drains and culverts too Recovery work has started on removing major log jams in the Te Arai River following Cyclone Gabrielle, with five priority sites identified. In March Gisborne District Council contractors completed clearing one site...
Ava-Raey Haley works on her trampoline routine as she prepares to compete in the eight-and-under division of the Central Trampoline and Tumbling Champs to be held at the Electrinet Sports Centre in Aberdeen Road over the weekend. Competitors will be...
Tairāwhiti crews will take part in the Waka Ama New Zealand Long Distance Nationals at Whitianga on the back of a disrupted training schedule. Mareikura Waka Ama Club crews, especially, have been hampered in their training. Anzac Park has been...
Regular lane swimmers and the general public who want to have a dip at the Olympic Pool will be glad of the news this morning that the water temperature has climbed back up to a balmy 29 degrees. The temperature has risen steadily since temporary...
Gisborne District Council offices in Fitzherbert Street and Te Puia Springs will be closed on Monday and Tuesday next week, along with the HB Williams Memorial Library. The council offices and the library will reopen on Wednesday April 26. The...
Two Gisborne locals are disappointed that organisers of the Mission Estate concert featuring music legends Sir Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper in Napier refused to refund or rebook their tickets. Lesley Turnbull and her friend Sally Raine booked...
Refusing to leave his ex-partner’s house where he had outstayed his welcome during a drinking session, a man got in a vehicle and drove it into a cabin on the property, oblivious to the fact there was someone inside it. Driving off, he refused to...
Gisborne Freemasons have handed over $30,000 for the Tairāwhiti Mayoral Relief Fund. All the lodges in New Zealand and some from overseas contributed to the amount. “It is probably the biggest and quickest collection of funds for such a cause in...
Moves are again being made to ensure the region’s children stay snug and warm this winter. Jammies 4 June Gizzy is heading into its seventh year and donations are being taken now, organiser Cassandra Blumfield says. “Jammies 4 June is a winter...
Bricks replaced books as the HB Williams Memorial Library’s popular school holiday programme continued yesterday. Grab Life By The Bricks was the name of a session run by Lego Masters NZ contestant Jono Samson and Nic Peeperkoorn. With such...
Mentally unwell people in Gisborne are being treated “appallingly” by the very service intended to help them, a lawyer says. Mark Sceats spoke passionately about his concern when addressing a judge in Gisborne District Court this week. His...
Gisborne's Cenotaph will be 100 years old on Anzac Day. The Poverty Bay Herald (as it was known back then) estimated 3000 people attended the official opening of what was then named the Gisborne War Memorial on Anzac Day, 1923 — less than five...
Drawing a panda was the theme of a Chinese art workshop at HB Williams Memorial Library last weekend. Scores of children enjoyed painting and learning tricks from the masters of Chinese art: Jinshui Lin and Lei Shuqing. Prior to the workshop, the...
Bombarded by what seems to be an endless series of bad news, from extreme weather to a cost-of-living crisis, it is refreshing to get some positive news in the fact New Zealand is considering a bid for the 2034 Commonwealth Games. The NZ Olympic...
Bob Hughes cannot be allowed to blame colonisation and Pakeha farming methods for all of the deforestation and damage to Aotearoa. “When Māori arrived, about 1250-1300 CE, they burned large tracts of forest, mainly on the coasts and eastern sides...
It’s ironic in an age of information-sharing progressed by technological advancements, that we have self-appointed Information Czars who from their positions in society, determine what information they deem we should know — based solely on their...
An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about...
I am worried about the trains and the washout. I would like to get the Green Party or the Labour Party to fix our rail line. I have had enough. I am so angry. We will not give up!! Please wake up KiwiRail. We will have another Rail Action Group...
One game in, the outlook for Eastern League men’s football this year seems OK. Eight teams in the first division, nine in the second, and promotion and relegation to take effect at season’s end — the ingredients are there for a modicum of...
Poverty Bay It was not the feat that earned them the “unofficial” honours of world golfing upset of 2018, but it did prove that some dogs have more than one day. Paul Rickard and Brad Morgan won the Tom Shaw Memorial 27-hole open pairs...
Five gymnasts from the Gisborne Gymnastics Club competed in the Mid Island Gym Sports competition in Rotorua at the weekend. For these five gymnasts, who compete in the upper national level, it is important to compete in other regions to gain...
A man facing jail time for two drink-driving charges — both involving high readings — was instead put on home detention, largely because he had been declared legally blind since the offending. Selwyn George Te Puni, 57, was ushered into Gisborne...
A heritage building that the Gisborne District Council placed on private property without the landowner’s permission has a new home with a Tairāwhiti iwi. But a council report on the building — the Inner Harbour Wharf Shed — reveals its...
“There are no small parts, only small actors,” modern theatre innovator Konstantin Stanislavski once said. With a variety of meaty roles behind him, Gisborne actor/singer Andrew Stevens is certainly no small actor — but for an upcoming...
Watch out for the string band The Eastern playing at the Dome next month. The group describes itself as a band which roars like a punk band, swings like a gospel band, drinks like a country band, works like a bar band, hopes like folk singers, sings...
In one of Gisborne photographer Tink Lockett’s large-scale silk prints, a model dressed in a creation by anti-fashion designer Dave Roil poses before a desolate, sun-baked service station. The setting could be somewhere around Barstow, Californi...